Intense psychological turmoil - and encounters

[Creaky]

Personally I've seen first hand the link between heightened awareness and spiritual awakenings, I'd say it tastes exactly like psychosis triggered by trauma although I'm not going to call people experiencing these things nuts since it's far too dismissive of their experiences, you know? Feelings?

I mean, why are churches on crossroads? Why the inquisition and the killing of "devil worshippers? The Romans would adopt local god's and faith systems since they often mirrored their own god's and systems they already came across, I only mention that because Christianity also actively absorbed, destroyed and demonised such practices mentioned by the op whilst they built churches upon once sacred ground... Or newly consecrated ground depending who you ask. Does any of that mean anything to you? It doesn't with most modern practicing Christians.

Beyond the basics principles of a follower of Christ their was clearly an understanding of other systems tied in with a desire to see them gone, they knew about this kind of stuff and incorporated strategies to make them irrelevant, doctrine says bad things about them, on the opposite side it could be said I'm saying bad things about Christianity although I can happily switch to other religions because this activity isn't actually based in faith but fear. Muslims fear 'magic' too, god knows what the Aztecs believed, they weren't the first to build where they placed their capital though... Probably down to human nature right?

No argument, no excuse
Jesus taught love, even towards those Christian’s disagreed with
Love is opposite to human nature, that desire is a failing of Christian’s not God
Many failing in the church 

for my conversion, it wasn’t related to trauma or psychosis.
I think the premise of this thread has a fault based on my lived experience

as for feelings, we often misread, misunderstand, confuse or otherwise, from my experience, they can’t be trusted 
I might one day feel like a woman, heaven forbid ?